>He said as much at NekoCon; since 6.2 is buggy as hell, he's waiting
>for 6.21, I believe, and once the boards are upgraded, then
>he'd start working on new features.

6.2.1 got released a week or two ago - while Gryph and I were doing the wiring job from hell. When I got back I was busy catching up with email, job hunt, news, and forums - including this one. My plan was to work on porting the 6.1 hacks to 6.2.1 this week. Monday I finally put together my new box to use for the work. Tuesday I was going to connect it and set it up. But it didn't work. It won't POST - just beeped. And in the process of trying to sort that out I appear to have fried the CPU. I did something very stupid - I powered on a 1.4GHz Athlon without the heatsink on the CPU. Then I got a nice burn on my knuckle.

Jer had a 1.4GHz Athlon too - and he offered to help me sort it out. So I trucked over to Worcester and we played swap the CPU. My CPU in his box did nothing - which seems to indicate it is indeed dead. His CPU in my box was back to the beeping. The beep code appears to be the "Not happy with memory" one - which could be the DIMMS, the CPU cache, or the controller on the MB.

But the fun came when we put things back where they started - his CPU back in his box now does nothing. So it looks like either my MB killed his CPU, or my CPU killed his MB. (Or both I suppose, though I'm trying not to think about that.)

So now I plan to get up Wednesday morning and find a PC repair shop that'll do a rush on these to try to make them work tomorrow. And then cry over the money I don't have to spend in the first place.

But, hopefully, I'll have a working system for the weekend to hack on.

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